On Thursday 01 February 2007 03:52 pm, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:40 -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > >From the outside, this is how folks view what Sun is doing. They see > > > some of > > > > the things that Sun does and scratch their head. It's not as though Sun > > is doing the wrong thing, they just don't communicate with the community > > very well when they do many of these things, so the community is in the > > dark. > > indeed, i don't know about others, but I feel that I do not see many > things which are going on inside of ON development. Like, schedule of > stabilization builds, code reviews, decisions made, etc. > > Also, it would be wonderful if Sun engineers invented a rule of thumb > which will enforce every single putback to go through the community > review before merging to the main tree, similar to what we see in Linux > kernel, where patches goes directly to the mailing list and reviewed by > thousands of kernel hackers. Not only it will increase community's input > but also will stimulate outsiders to commit more often. > > This would also help outsiders to understand ON code and will create > certain discipline among developers.
Erast, Very good point, hopefully we will get to a point in the future where it does happen like that. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of Insourcing at Sun, hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
